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Proclamation Line
King George lll ordered no more colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Proclamation gave the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Indians for their Hunting Grounds. -
Stamp Act
The first Direct Tax on the colonists(not just merchants), Because of the colonial protest and boycotts, England repealed the Stamp Act. -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers. a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declaratory Act
To save face, this law declared England's authority to makes laws for the colonies. Accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. The two youngest signers of the Declaration of Independence were both from South Carolina. -
Townshend Acts
This series of acts taxed items like tea, paper, and glass. Passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonists, killing 5. Britain dispatched 1,00 troops to Boston to keep order, where colonists heckled them. -
Committee of Correspondence
Colonies set up groups to communicate about British activities. The committees unified the colonies, shaped public opinion, and coordinated resisting the British . -
Tea Act
This lowered the tax on British tea, making it cheaper than the non-British tea colonists smuggled. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. Samuel Adams publically defended the action and may have participated. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
Considered by many the start of the American Revolution. At Concord, 400 minutemen attacked and chased the British back to Boston, killing 99 troops.
